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"419" Scam – Advance Fee / Fake Lottery Scam

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Victims never receive this non-existent fortune but are tricked into sending their money to the criminals, who remain anonymous. They hide their real identity and location by using fake names and fake postal addresses as well as communicating via anonymous free email accounts and mobile phones.

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Some comments by the Scam-O-Matic about the following email:

• The following phrases in this message should put you on alert:
  • "will come to you as a surprise" (a common phrase found in 419 scams)
  • "hundred thousand united states dollars" (they want you to be blinded by the prospect of quick money, but the only money that ever changes hands in 419 scams is from you to the criminals)
  • "00,000.00" (they want you to be blinded by the prospect of quick money, but the only money that ever changes hands in 419 scams is from you to the criminals)
  • "ecowas " (the name of a person or institution often appearing in 419 scams)
  • "abidjan" (a location commonly mentioned in 419 scams)
• This email message is a 419 scam. Please see our 419 FAQ for more details on such scams.
  
• This email lists mobile phone numbers. Use of such numbers is typical for scams because they allow criminals to conceal their true location. They can receive calls in an Internet cafe from where they send you emails, while pretending to be in some office.
  • +22505282344 (Cote d'Ivoire, probably a prepaid mobile phone)

Fraud email example:

From: PATRICK BEREWA <pberewa2@hotmail.fr>
Reply-To: <patrick_berewa@yahoo.fr>
Date: Thu, 25 Oct 2007 21:29:55 +0200
Subject: Please We Need Your Assistance.



From Patrick And Jane Berewa ,
Residence Sos, AboboRue des Jardins, Cocody, AbidjanRepublic Of Cote d'Ivoire

Contact me on this no; +225 05-28-23-44

Dear , Our sincere Greetings to you, I know that this mail will come to you as a surprise but please it was borne out of a desparate need for assistance so please permit me to inform you of my heart desire for a business relationship with you.I am Patrick Berewa the only son of late Mr.Johnson Kallon Berewa from Sierra Leone. I got your contact from the Ecowas Infomation Center in Abidjan,Cote d' Ivoire here. My source of your contact gave me the courage and confidence to rely on you. I am writting you in absolute confidence primarily to seek your assistance to transfer the amount of Eight Million five hundred thousand United States dollars (US$8.500,000.00) now in the custody of a BANK here in Abidjan to your private account in your country and for you to help me and my sister to get our papers to come over to your country for upward investement of the money in good business venture which you will serve as an overseer and for the continuation of our education.

Iam 20 years old.and my sister Jane is 16.Our late father Mr.Johnson Kallon Barewa was before his death a diamond and precious stone merchant in our country Sierra Leone. He was killed during the civil war in my country by the forces loyal to the Government on the allegations that he was sponsoring the rebels. this caused us to run to cote d'ivoire with our late mother. But on getting to cote d' ivoire my mother developed a heart ailment which claimed her life. but before she died she gave me the documents of the money which my late father deposited in a bank here in cote d' ivoire. which is ($m8.500,000.00) She told us that our late father reached an agreement with the bank that the money is for onward transfer to a foreign account and entered my name his only son as the next to kin.She pleaded that I should look for a good and trust worthy person abroad who will help me to transfer this money out of here and help me and my sister to come over to his or her country to continue our education.and investement of the money.

I have visited the bank and met the director who assured me that the money is intact and that once I submitts the details of the foreign partner in whose account the money will be transfered to, that the bank will commence the transfer proceedings immediately. that is the reason I contacted you so that I could present you to the bank as my late father's foreign business partner so that the money could be transfered to your account. So please Iam seeking for your assistance to transfer this money out of here so that I and my sister could have a new life because we are suffreing a lot here.FOR YOUR ASSISTANCE I BEG TO CONCEED 20% OF THIS MONEY TO YOU. you can reach me on the phone with this number; +225-05-28-23-44 for more explanations.

God bless you as we await your reply.

Yours sincerely,Patrick and Jane Berewa
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